... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction between... our present period and the centuries before. And this loss is definite. For no matter how religious our world may turn again, or how much authentic faith still exists in it, or how deeply our moral values may be rooted in our religious systems, the fear of hell is no longer among the motives which would prevent or stimulate the actions of a majority.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

More than the changing of institutions we need the development of a national conscience, and the upbuilding of national character.... Men may boast of the aristocracy of blood, may glory in the aristocracy of talent, and be proud of the aristocracy of wealth, but there is one aristocracy which must ever outrank them all, and that is the aristocracy of character; and it is the women of a country who help to mold its character, and to influence if not determine its destiny; and in the political future of our nation woman will not have done what she could if she does not endeavor to have our republic stand foremost among the nations of the earth, wearing sobriety as a crown and righteousness as a garment and a girdle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film? With the whole universe and all the future to play in, Lucas took his ...marvelous toys and crawled under the fringed cloth on the parlor table, back into a nice safe hideyhole, along with Flash Gordon and the Cowardly Lion and Luck Skywalker and the Flying Aces and the Hitler Jugend. If there's a message there, I don't think I want to hear it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface.... So each ...of us thinks, almost daily, of how our own childhood compares with our children's, and of what our children's future will hold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

And no less firmly do I hold that we shall one day recognize in Freud's life-work the cornerstone for the building of a new anthro...pology and therewith of a new structure, to which many stones are being brought up today, which shall be the future dwelling of a wiser and freer humanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother--the blacker she is the more us she is--and to see the hatred that is turned ...on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though par...tial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »